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Management and Leadership Assessment

MLQ30 Management and Leadership Questionnaire

Objectives

Increase awareness and understanding of management and leadership skills, style and competencies.

Analyze current management and leadership skills and competencies.

Provide practical tips for management and leadership development.

Improve management and leadership skills and job performance.

General description

The MLQ30 questionnaire provides information about an individual's management and leadership competencies and skills. The MLQ30 competency model measures 30 dimensions of management and leadership competence covering 6 key areas. These cover the transformational and transactional aspects of managerial and leadership activity. The tables below provide further details of what the questionnaires measure.

Measurement and scoring

The instrument measures six leadership meta-competencies and 30 lower-level management and leadership competencies.
The 192-item questionnaire takes about 20 minutes to complete. The MLQ30 uses the Standard Ten (Sten) scoring system.
The feedback report provides an in-depth profile of the test taker's management and leadership skills, level, and style, and offers performance improvement tips and suggestions.
The instrument's 30 scales measure the following competencies.

STRATEGIC AND CREATIVE THINKING

Thinking and managing globally

Keeps up to date with global trends, reviews the company's position, develops business relationships in other countries.

Developing strategy and acting strategically

Sees the big picture, picks up changes in the marketplace, reviews and analyzes the business unit's strategy.

Managing knowledge and information

Keeps up with advances in business area, benchmarks performance against industry leaders, seeks advice from experts.

Creating and innovating

Helps people to think differently about a problem, gets buy-in for creative ideas, turns novel ideas into reality.

Resources

Reliability and validity

The reliabilities of the scales in the standardization sample ranged from 0.78 to 0.92 and the median scale reliability was 0.86.
Criterion-related validity studies show statistically significant correlations between job performance and test scores on all the scales.
The magnitude and range of correlations are consistent with those reported in the literature for the impact of competencies on job performance.

Norms

The standardization norm group consists of a large incidental sample of 3,000 respondents.
The sample has almost equal numbers of men and women. The mean age of the sample was 37 years Fifty seven percent of respondents were aged 25 to 44, and 28 percent were aged 45 to 64.
Fourteen percent were in the 18 to 24 age band.
Forty one percent of respondents described themselves as junior managers, 29 percent said they were middle managers, and 10 percent reported that they were senior managers.

Reviews

“ The measure is grounded in transformational/transactional leadership theory and identifies with the theory’s distinct focus on management versus leadership. The MLQ30 is an effective tool for training and development …
The psychometric qualities of the instrument are sound, as the MLQ30 was developed according to standard procedures and is based on a large representative standardization sample. Reliability and validity data also lend support to the quality of the MLQ30. ”

Expected Completion Time

15 minutes

Cost

$19.95 USD

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